Czechia Genealogy
Guide to Czech Republic ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
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Country Information[edit | edit source]
Czechia, officially known as the Czech Republic, is a country in Central Europe bordering Poland, Germany, Austria, and Slovakia. It includes the three historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. From 1918 to 1993, it was the Western part of Czechoslovakia. The official language is Czech.[1]
Getting Started[edit | edit source]
Getting Started with Czechia ResearchLinks to articles on getting started with Czechia research.
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Czech Republic Research ToolsLinks to articles and websites that assist in Czechia research.
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Finding Town of Origin[edit | edit source]
Records are created and organized on the local level. If you do not know the name of the village or parish your ancestors lived in, see
- Czech Republic Finding Town of Origin, using United States records.
- Czech Republic Determining a Place of Origin
- Czech Republic Emigration and Immigration.
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Once you have determined the name of the town or towns, look them up in the GenTeam Gazetteer to find the archives where the records for that town would be found. |
Archives[edit | edit source]
Czech Republic records were created on the town or parish level, then collected and preserved on the archive level. Click on the appropriate archive in the map or in the list.
Czech Republic Clickable Maps[edit | edit source]
Archival Regions[edit | edit source]
First use GenTeam Free Gazetteer to find out which archive holds the records that you need. GenTeam Instructions. Click on the archival region covering the location of your parish, either on the map or from the list.
- Brno Moravian Land Archives
- Litoměřice Regional Archives
- Opava (Olomouc) Land Archives
- Plzeň Regional Archives
- Prague (Praha) City Archives
- Prague (Praha) Regional Archives
- Třeboň Regional Archives
- Zámrsk Regional Archives
Additional Language Helps[edit | edit source]
Except for modern records of the 1900s, records in the Czech Republic were written mostly in Latin and German. Other languages sometimes used in Czech records include Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
- German Paleography Seminar - Lessons on German Handwriting
- Old German Script
- Czech Republic Handwriting
- Latin for Genealogists
More Czech Republic Research Strategies[edit | edit source]
Research strategies give guidance on how to research or what records to search for first. Below are additional research strategy Wiki articles for the Czech Republic.
- "How to" Guides
- Getting started
- What's the next step?
- Finding your ancestor in the records
- Tips for beginners
- If You Are Czech Citizen...
- Beginning Czech Republic Research
- Records Overview
More Czech Republic Research Tools[edit | edit source]
Research tools can include resources that assist in locating correct records to search and determining the correct locality to search in. Below are links and Wiki articles to research tools in the Czech Republic.
- American Friends of the Czech Republic website gives a brief how to and where to find your Czech Ancestors with links to sites.
- Reference Aids Overview at the Family History Library
- Prague Conscriptions (1850-1914)
- Jewish Registers
- Czech Family Tree
- Central European Genealogy Research Community on FaceBook - Scroll down to Archives for North Moravia - Czech Republic. You must be logged into Facebook to see this resource.
- Websites
FamilySearch Resources[edit | edit source]
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.
- Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
- FamilySearch Historical Record Collections
- Family History Center locator map
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Czech Republic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic, accessed 23 March 2016.
